Are there any safe food additives?
If you read women's magazines, you may have seen the tear-out page, Be Safe, not sorry: the truth about food additives in the 9 October 2001 issue of Family Circle. It doesn't seem to be copyrighted. If you are in touch with me, I can send you a copy. The article is based on research by Michael F. Jacobson PhD, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, publisher of the Nutrition Action Health Letter, described above. Or you can try logging on to www.cspinet.org/additives and see what currently is posted on the Center's website. Arranged alphabetically, the article uses five symbols to indicate how safe a particular additive, from Acesulfame-K to Thaimin Mononitrate is in the human body. It's the kind of article a woman might want to fold up and keep in her purse to use when she looks at boxes in the grocery store. Of course, if you buy fresh fruit and veggies instead of boxes with monosyllabic ingredients, so much the better. You should know, though, that Dr Blaylock's book takes a much stronger position on MSG than this piece does.
Or you may like to keep handy a little 61-page book I bought at our co-op: Food Additives: A Shopper's Guide to What's Safe and What's Not by Christine Hoza Farlow, DC. It's only $3.95. It's a nice size to fit in one of the flaps of my purse. It can be ordered by e-mail: kiss4health@ixpress.com or at 1-760-735-8101. I've found it very useful.
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